John Wheeler

"The universe is fundamentally benevolent."

"Love is the force that binds the universe together."

"Connection is the essence of life."

"We are all stardust."

"The universe is one vast interconnected whole."

"Separation is an illusion."

"Everything is everything else."

"The observer and the observed are one."

"Subject and object merge in understanding."

"The past is unhappy; none of us can change it. But the future is ours to shape."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"We are not only in the universe; the universe is in us."

"It from bit - information is the foundation of reality."

"Make a little universe to yourself."

"The observer creates reality through the act of observation."

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we find is ultimate complexity."

"I would say that of all the millions of grades of iron compounds, the most precious is human consciousness."

"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."

"The most important principles for the good life are commitment, humor, and hope."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"We live in a participatory universe - our role is as much creator as observer."

"Questions never settle; they open doors."

"What is the universe made of? More fundamentally, what is the question that gets closest to revealing reality?"

"The true jest of life is in learning to take something seriously without taking it too seriously."

"How can the universe be so large, yet so mathematical in its construction?"

"To understand the future, we must understand the deepest nature of existence itself."

"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon."

"Beauty in physics comes from simplicity and deep structure, not complexity."

"We are trapped by the terms we use to describe the world."

"The universe will always have mysteries that pull at human curiosity."